Govt to review allowing refugees, asylum seekers to work in plantation sector
This is to overcome the shortage of workers in the sector.
Nothing to do with meddling, rights group tells home minister on deportation of refugees
Lawyers for Liberty says Hamzah Zainudin has ‘entirely ignored’ the real issues at hand.
Don't interfere, Hamzah tells UNHCR on deportation of refugees
The home minister says any foreigners who violate Malaysia's laws will be sent back to their country of origin.
Rohingya rights group appeals against deportation of asylum seekers
Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization in Malaysia also slams the United Nations and 'super powers' for not doing more.
From Arakan to Selayang, a woman’s dream
Rohingya refugee Mumtaz Sultan Ahmad tells of how she came to Malaysia and her hopes for her children.
UK discussing plans to hold refugees in African ‘processing centres’
European nations are increasingly looking at contracting other countries to act as processing centres for asylum seekers.
Australia releases Tamil asylum-seeking family from island detention
Amid growing support for their case, Priya and Nades Murugappan along with their Australian-born daughters will now be allowed to live temporarily in Perth.
Australia pressured to free Tamil refugee family detained on remote Christmas Island
The family of 'unlawful non-citizens' were transferred to the island from Queensland, where they had settled.
Denmark telling many Syrian refugees to head for home
Authorities in Copenhagen are arguing that parts of Syria are now safe enough for refugees to return.
More than 100 asylum seekers in NZ locked up in prisons with hardened criminals
One man spent more than three years in a prison cell before being granted refugee status.
Denmark tells over 1,000 Syrian refugees: Get ready to go home, Syria is now safe
Denmark’s voters are becoming more anti-immigrant, forcing the ruling party to adopt a fierce anti-immigration stance to fend off opposition parties gaining popularity.
Rights group slams detention of hundreds of children at immigration centres as pandemic rages on
Detaining these children at overcrowded immigration centres puts them at increased risk of contracting Covid-19, says Lawyers for Liberty.
